Best 132 quotes in «anxious quotes» category

I'm always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.

I'm an anxious person. What I like best is to smoke cigarettes and listen to music. A perfect day for me is a day with coffee, cigarettes, and music, to quote Jim Jarmusch.

I'm in my best shape when I'm really anxious, because I have to get to the gym. Physically I'm in the best shape.

I'm not anxious, I'm high-strung. I just decided that's the difference for me.

In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even during the briefest of intervals.

In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it in the theatre that I can hardly say it in normal life.

In a conversation, the words can get stuck, I don't know what to say, I get very anxious.

It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.

I ran rather than walked, anxious to lose my way. All I wanted was to be unsure.

I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.

I tend to have more anxious dreams where I'm late getting to places. That's definitely a recurring dream; I hate being late to places.

I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly.

It took me a long time, but I don't feel as anxious about stupid things anymore - or perhaps they've just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.

It makes me . . . anxious . . . to be away from you.

I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.

It was a film that I knew, that I had seen, that I was familiar with, but I wasn't anxious about it at any point during the screening. I snoozed twice, and this is something I couldn't have imagined that I would feel detached, as I did with this film [Certified Copy].

I used to think that the times when you don't work, you should be anxious and constantly by the phone and putting so much pressure on yourself, but I've really learned that all the experiences we have you can bring into the next job. So it's making sure your brain and body are being stimulated so you can bring something new to the next role.

I've been a little haphazard about how nude I get, and the only thing that keeps me from getting anxious about it is that I've had complete control over it.

I was very superstitious when I was a teenager, and I had to fight against that because it made me feel anxious.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

I would sit and talk to any president who wishes to talk to me, but I'm not anxious to rule it in.

Let anxious anticipation evolve into effective preparation

Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good.

I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.

Life's too short for anxious score-keeping

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.

Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

The fact that Maurice Sendak said, "This is something that I made at your age, this was something that was personal to me, and now you need to take it and make something that's personal to you." I don't know, but we made the Where The Wild Things Are movie that we set out to make, and Maurice loves it. If Maurice was anxious about it, then I would be petrified.

The American people are both anxious for change. We're in a time of flux.

The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic.

There is nothing about which I am more anxious than my country, and for its sake I am willing to die ten deaths, if that be possible.

There is nothing men are so anxious to keep, and yet are so careless about, as life.

There's Pam watching anxiously. She doesn't look anxious though.

Therapists are less likely to perceive a black woman as sad; instead they see her as angry or anxious.

This is not my phrase, but if you're stuck in the past, then you're depressed. If you're stuck in the future, then you're anxious.

Time flies when you are anxious!

The way to be anxious about nothing is to be prayerful about everything.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.

Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man.

Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?

We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' What is that, grandmother?' To understand other people.' Yes, grandmother. I must be fair - for if I'm not fair to other people, I'm not worth being understood myself. I see.

We are impatient, anxious to see the whole picture, but God lets us see things slowly, quietly.

Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.

When we carve out a niche for ourselves in our imagined future, and decide that we won't be happy until we achieve it, we can only feel threatened and anxious over anything that stands in our way.

Why are congressmen called public servants? You never see servants that anxious to keep their jobs.